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The source of likely headache here is that "Creation - Preservation/Change - Destruction" is the version |
The source of likely headache here is that "Creation - Preservation/Change - Destruction" is the version canonized by The Hindu Reformation, that is XIX century - which is why the actual mythology is not "resulting", it's preceeding this concept, by millenia.<br /> |
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The most obvious of problems |
The most obvious of problems is that ''de facto'' it left most results of the pre-existing "Trimurti as personifications of Guna" approach all over the place, thus in older sources, folk art and adaptations thereof you run into ''lots'' of little things like references to "Shiva the Preserver" (''Shiv and the Grasshopper'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]), etc. It follows that in the purest form the new version is most likely to appear in the foreign sources that aren't based on the originals, but skimmed the cream in volume of two pages "for exotics" and built upon that - as the current list of examples illustrates. |
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Aside of the fact that both versions are |
Aside of the fact that both versions are, well, ''in use'', with all this entails. |